Hi Patrick. Thanks for your response. However what is your alternative?

My article was a response to people saying that guys like Zuckerberg or Larry Page dropped out, so there is no point. However what people forget is that Facebook or Google would never have been founded had they not been in college in the first place. Not sure whether you read my article, but I outline the way that happened in there. These are of course IT startups, where I agree you can learn programming without needing a degree. However, for other types of startups like in biotech, you absolutely need to be at university, since the school of life can't teach you the things needed to have a company which has to be at the cutting edge of research.

As for prices at US universities, I agree they are too much. However, not everyone needs to go to the expensive. Plenty of cheaper options. If you are willing to learn a language, you can even go to Europe and study virtually for free.

Also don't forget that college isn't just the classes, but the entire environment. It's the best place to meet people from all walks of life (FB, Google and other co-founders met at uni), plus the infrastructure for your startup. Google started on the Stanford campus, and used equipment and much of the bandwidth of that university. Without that, Google would never have been able to grow (beside the fact that the idea for it came from university research).